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Rothacker Smith had no idea that war was in his future on the morning of 7 December 1941. Smith was working in a corn...

Robert Marovelli clearly remembers being in the bathtub on 7 December 1941, when the announcement came over the radio...

On 28 August [Annotator's Note: 28 August 1944], LST-1047 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank], the ship to which...

Josephine Reeves was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in April 1919. Growing up, Reeves attended the West Catholic...

Raymond Loidolt was born in 1924 on a farm east of Pierz, Minnesota. The farm kept the six of them busy. He went to...

Raymond Cauble was born in Blue Island, Illinois in February 1918. His father was a carpenter and contractor. He was...

Yeu Foon, who changed his Chinese name to Johnny Ngai after the war, started out in North Africa [Annotator's Note: the...

James Lovell was born in March 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, but as a young child his father's profession in the heating...

Bernard Norman Marcantel was born in July 1923 in Oberlin, Louisiana, the youngest of four sons. The children of their...

Edward J. Nickerson, Jr. was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in July 1920. His father was a...

Henry A. Tacket and the USS Heermann (DD-532) were assigned to the invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. The...

Kenneth Beckman was born in August 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts where...

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